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It doesnt feel like there's been a big movie event in a long time, used to be you'd associate an entire year with being the year that a particular movie was released, there's be TV shows and card collecting or sticker books and stickers and gum and all sorts of merchandising, maybe a spin off TV series or animation series, video games etc.

The last time I remember it was Tim Burton's Batman, although I remember it happening with Star Wars, Dune and Indiana Jones too.

All for ourselves, and nothing for other people, seems, in every age of the world, to have been the vile maxim of the masters of mankind.
Chapter IV, p. 448. - Adam Smith, Book 3, The Wealth of Nations

whether or not you credit psychoanalysis itself, the fact remains that we all must, to the greatest extent possible, understand one another's minds as our own; the very survival of humanity has always depended on it. - Open Culture

It doesnt feel like there's been a big movie event in a long time, used to be you'd associate an entire year with being the year that a particular movie was released, there's be TV shows and card collecting or sticker books and stickers and gum and all sorts of merchandising, maybe a spin off TV series or animation series, video games etc.

I would say the closet we've come in the US to that over the last ten years has been the Star Wars second set of movies (a number of years back), The Lord of the Rings, and most recently, the final few movies of Harry Potter.

"Hey Capa -- We're only stardust." ~ "Sunshine"

“Pleasure to me is wonder—the unexplored, the unexpected, the thing that is hidden and the changeless thing that lurks behind superficial mutability. To trace the remote in the immediate; the eternal in the ephemeral; the past in the present; the infinite in the finite; these are to me the springs of delight and beauty.” ~ H.P. Lovecraft

Gavin Hood is directing, and a few of the actors from Hugo (Kingsley + the boy) are in it.

Maybe I should finally read the book now.

Also the director of Wolverine. Oh well, it'll be crap. And it's tentatively scheduled for 2013 now. And the fact that good actors like Kingsley and that kid were in it is another reason the film will be bad, not because they're bad actors, but because some filmmakers think they can save a shitty movie with good actors. Harrison Ford is also rumored to be in it.

The other day, I saw a trailer for Wrath of the Titans. I didn't like the Clash of the Titans remake, so I have low expectations for the sequel, which is from the director of Darkness Falls and Battle: Los Angeles (the latter film I especially despised), and therefore isn't increasing my expectations any.

Still the effects and character animation look good, so I'll probably end up seeing it, probably in 2D, where all the color of the image is preserved.

I think I saw the Clash of the Titans remake (it had Sam whassisname in it, the Aussie guy from Avatar, right?). I found it boring.... not great, for an action picture. You can have all the action in the world, but if the story is flat, it's not going to hold people. So I have little interest in further parts of the franchise.

3D is overrated, especially with the color wash-out. 2D still has a lot to offer.

"Hey Capa -- We're only stardust." ~ "Sunshine"

“Pleasure to me is wonder—the unexplored, the unexpected, the thing that is hidden and the changeless thing that lurks behind superficial mutability. To trace the remote in the immediate; the eternal in the ephemeral; the past in the present; the infinite in the finite; these are to me the springs of delight and beauty.” ~ H.P. Lovecraft